Earlier this week Newsbusters reported that the media hyped a statistic about school shootings that
originated from Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group “Everytown for Gun Safety.’ There
have been, according to the widely reported stat, 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook. The
media dutifully repeated the number until it was debunked.

While CNN later retracted and
amended their reporting of the questionable count to a much lower number, 15,
NBC and ABC did not bother to correct their stories using that statistic. On last
night’s ‘The Five’ Fox host Greg Gutfeld blasted the media for promoting false
stats and getting in the way of true progress:

Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld took issue with
the media’s blatant blindness to the true data on Thursday’s “The Five.”

“By inflating statistics you magnify the distrust already
present in a public who sense your fibs are leading to force. By distorting
tragedy to push for sweeping reform, prevents real progress in stopping
madmen.”

Think Progress and other liberal media did not agree with CNN’s
retraction. Apparently neither did the broadcast networks, as they still have
not retracted their earlier broadcasts.

As Matt
Balan wrote Wednesday, NBC spent two segments promoting Everytown’s false data. ABC
also did its part in spreading false information provided by the anti-gun
group.

“How could this happen again?” anchor
David Muir asked on “World News by Diane Sawyer” June 10. “By one count, this is at least the 74th school shooting since the shootings at
Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.”

Again the next morning, on
“Good Morning America,” Robin Roberts lamented, “This is the 74th school shooting since
the tragedy at Sandy Hook. You see the map there, showing the locations of each
incident, an unthinkable nationwide epidemic.”